Rashid Garifovich Maksyutov
(Kislovodsk 1925 - Podolsk 1996)
"The last Snow (village Veshenskaya)"
on board: 49,5 x 70 cm;
signed; signed, titled 'Poslednii sneg. Stanitsa Veshenskaya' (a 'stanitsa' is a large Cossack village) and dated 1963 on the reverse.
Notes
Rashid Maksyutov was born in 1925 in Kislovodsk, Stavropol territory. He studied at the Moscow Intermediate Art School in 1939 – 1943 and at the Moscow Surikov Institute from 1947 - 1950, where he was a pupil of G. Shegal and V. Tsyplakov.
Maksyutov started to exhibit in 1943. In 1960 he took part in the important Soviet Russia exhibition in Moscow. He also exhibited in Bulgaria, India, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Holland, Finland, Austria, Italy, Sweden, USA, New Zealand, Canada, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Poland and Greece. Maksyutov had personal exhibitions in 1959, 1960, 1961, 1972, 1985 in Moscow and in Stanitsa Veshenskaya.
The keynote in Maksyutovs work is the landscape. He lived and worked in Podolsk, a place whose natural beauty has attracted many Russian painters. His works always have a precise compositional pattern and a well thought out coloristic orchestration. Many museums in Russia show his work: The Tambov Regional Picture Gallery, the Irkutsk Art Museum, the Kirghiz State Museum of Fine Arts, the Penza Picture Gallery, the State Museum of History and Art in Pskov, the Lunacharski Art Museum in Krasnodar, the Kostroma Art Museum, the Museum of History and Art in Serpukhov and the State Museum of Literature in Moscow.
Literature for reference: A Dictionary of twentieth century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980’s, by Matthew Cullerne Bown, London, 1998, with an illustration on page 197, plate 177 Evening (1959); Socialist Realist Painting, M. Cullerne Bown, London & New Haven 1998; Soviet Impressionism, Vern Grosvenor Swanson, Antique Collector’s Club, Woodbridge 2001 with an illustration on page 164, plate 118 In the Village (1968)
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Category
Russian 19th -20th century
landscape